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They Cloned Tyrone

R
2h 2m

Release Date: Jul 21, 2023

A series of eerie events thrusts an unlikely trio onto the trail of a nefarious government conspiracy in this pulpy mystery caper.

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Director & Top Cast

Juel Taylor
Director

John Boyega
Fontaine

Jamie Foxx
Slick Charles

Teyonah Parris
Yo-Yo

Kiefer Sutherland
Nixon

David Alan Grier
The Preacher

J. Alphonse Nicholson

Isaac

Tamberla Perry

Biddy

Eric B. Robinson Jr.

Big Moss

Trayce Malachi

Junebug

Shariff Earp

Crutches

Leon Lamar

Frog

Joshua Mikel

DJ Strangelove

Ryan Dinning

Cleanroom Suit Guy

Swift Rice

The Deacon

Megan Sousa

Ree-Ree

Charity Jordan

Split Ends

Austin Freeman

Bespectacled Tech

Technical Specifications

Sound Mix: Dolby Digital

Aspect Ratio: 2.00 : 1

Other Details

Country of Origin: United States

Language: English

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Summaries

Plot Summary

Fontaine is a drug dealer in a suburban neighborhood called the Glen. One night, after obtaining payment from one of his customers, Slick Charles, he is killed by an opposing drug dealer named Isaac.The next morning, Slick is shocked when Fontaine shows up for the money once again, somehow alive and without any recollections of the previous night's events. The two find Slick's sex worker Yo-Yo, to confirm Slick's claims of his death, confusing Fontaine. Recalling a man, bleeding from a gunshot, who was kidnapped by a black SUV, Fontaine leads Slick and Yo-Yo to the vehicle which is now parked outside a house.Investigating inside, they discover an elevator leading to an underground lab. Inside, a white scientist with an afro tells them that the operation has gone widespread before Slick accidentally kills him after snorting a mysterious white substance he thinks is cocaine which makes him laugh. Before they leave, the trio discovers a corpse lying on a table, identical to Fontaine.After finding that the entrance to the lab has disappeared the following morning, the trio heads to a fried chicken restaurant, where the diners are all laughing, making Slick realize that the food contains the same substance that he consumed previously. Seducing the restaurant manager, Yo-Yo discovers that the entirety of the Glen is being surveilled and recorded and that the substance is also being used in grape drinks and hair products.Finding a hidden elevator within a church altar, the trio enter an underground lab facility that spans the entire Glen area and witness Black people being subject to disturbing behavioral experiments. They find that the lab has clones of many Glen residents, including Fontaine and Slick. After Fontaine sets off an alarm, they exit through a strip club. The DJ brainwashes the clubgoers with a song and forces them to chase the trio. A white man named Nixon and a Fontaine clone named Chester show up to halt the clubgoers.Nixon reveals that scientists conduct experiments on impoverished, predominantly Black populations such as the Glen, to allow the operation to go unnoticed and supposedly achieve peace in America. After briefly using a trigger word to force the entire crowd to follow his commands with the exception of Yo-Yo, putting them at risk, Nixon threatens to use it on the crowd again if the trio doesn't stop their investigation.Despite this, Yo-Yo decides to take matters into her own hands, but her identity is exposed, and Nixon kidnaps her. Learning of this, Fontaine devises a plan with Isaac and Slick to rescue Yo-Yo, with Fontaine faking his death to sneak into the lab undetected. Fontaine then lets Slick and Isaac in to storm the lab with numerous residents of the Glen. They free the Black people being experimented on, including the clones, while Yo-Yo frees herself and finds Slick.Chester overpowers and takes Fontaine to an older version of himself, the original Fontaine. He explains that he is helping scientists create "peace" by whitewashing black people into white people, through mind control and generational breeding. Fontaine's little brother's racially-motivated murder by a police officer prompted him to start making the clones. After the original Fontaine claims the country would be better with assimilation than annihilation, Fontaine uses Nixon's trigger word on Chester and has him shoot the original. Meanwhile, Yo-Yo stalls Nixon from killing her before Slick shoots him in the head.The facility entrance to the church opens, spilling clones out to the public, exposing the secret operation. After Yo-Yo announces her retirement from her job, the trio decides to head to Memphis, to further expose and stop the operation.Meanwhile, in Los Angeles, a man named Tyrone, identical to and living the same lifestyle as Fontaine, is watching TV with his friends, when they see one of Fontaine's clones appear on the news. (thanks to Wikipedia)

Storyline

A pulpy, sci-fi mystery caper in which an unlikely trio investigates a series of eerie events, alerting them to a nefarious conspiracy lurking directly beneath their hood. Fontaine, a neighborhood drug dealer, is shot dead by rival Isaac and then is very shocked to wake up in his bed the next morning unharmed. He and Slick Charles and Yo-Yo begin looking into the incident, and their search eventually leads them to a vast underground complex where a government backed lab is performing experiments on the local Black population. Realizing that he is an artificial clone controlled by Nixon, Fontaine initially feels despair, but decides he needs to stand up to these White institutional overlords for the sake of his neighborhood.